Criminal Law

Harper Grey LLP's criminal law practice group includes experienced criminal defence lawyers who bring a wealth of experience to each case. We have represented clients in some of British Columbia’s most well known criminal law cases.

We counsel individual clients and corporations concerning their exposure to criminal law. Our lawyers represent clients in all manner of criminal cases at all levels of the judicial system, from the Supreme Court of Canada to the British Columbia Provincial Court, with a substantial body of work at the appeal court level.

Lawyers within the group have also served as former crown prosecutors and on occasion work as Special Prosecutors in matters involving potential or perception of conflict within the Ministry of the Attorney General of BC.

Terry Robertson, QC chairs the criminal law practice group at Harper Grey. Please contact him at 604.895.2835 or via email.

Harper Grey LLP represents clients with the following criminal law issues:

• White collar crime
• Income tax evasion
• Fraud
• Misdemeanors
• Impaired driving & other motor vehicle criminal code offenses
• Homicide
• Sexual offenses
• Compliance
• Quasi-criminal regulatory offenses in the securities and financial services industries

Representative Client Work

• Co-Counsel for one of two accused on the Air India case
• Special Prosecution of two leaders of a polygamous sect in British Columbia
• Counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Nagra (1994), a case involving passport fraud and allegations of Sikh terrorism
• Counsel on many major multi-count cases involving allegations of historical sexual abuse
• Counsel in the Court of Appeal on numerous matters, both for the Accused/Appellant and the Crown/Respondent, including several successful appeals from first degree murder convictions
• Co-Counsel for one of the Defendants in the Nanaimo Commonwealth case (otherwise known as the "Bingogate" case)
• Acting as counsel for the accused in Regina v. Pontes where the Supreme Court of Canada upheld all the lower court decisions that a section of the Motor Vehicle Act of BC contravened the Charter